Najaf is a name that has a sacred place in the hearts of many Muslims around the world. History books say about it that it is a city that went along with it and that history accompanied it, and rhetoricians described it at length. Many people of wisdom and clarification wrote about it, and it was and still is a university of science, jurisprudence and literature. It is not surprising that she occupies such a position and her sacred wealth embraces the remains of Ibn Talib, the uncle of the Messenger of God (PBUH), and his daughter-in-law, Imam Ali bin Abi. (PBUH)
As long as we browse some pages of history steeped in the past of this city, We do not think that you – our honorable visitor – spend a few moments of your precious time on us to review quick glimpses of the history of Najaf. Historians say that Dawood bin Ali Al-Abbas was the first to discover the tomb of Imam Ali (PBUH), and that was a year ago (139 AH – 750 AD). The Abbasid caliph, Harun al-Rashid, in whose era the Arab-Islamic civilization flourished, He was the first person to confirm the location of the honorable shrine of Imam Ali (pbuh) within the year (170 A.H. 786 A.D.) when he was on a hunting trip in the land of Najaf, so he stopped at the white women. It consists of three heights, in the middle of which is a valley where the tomb of Imam Ali (pbuh) was. So he ordered the construction of a dome of red clay over it, in appreciation of its status in the hearts of every Muslim.
After that, this sacred spot witnessed, during its long history, urban events worthy of pride. The interest of the caliphs, princes and governors in the pure al-Haydariyya garden continued and successively, and in different degrees, but it did not reach in any era or era what it reached during the reign of the President and leader Saddam Hussein (may God protect him), which showed it in a manner that befits the status of this sacred place in the hearts of Muslims in the east and west of the earth. . The golden dome of the Al-Haydariyya Rawdat, which towers majestically, consists of (7777) bricks of pure gold, while the two golden minarets are 35 meters high and each contains 40,000 golden bricks.
Source: Guide to religious tourism in Iraq 1992
